u/disembodiedstring

I ordered Plaid Love Bunny to be my buddy while I recover from surgery since he looks like how I feel.

I have texture issues. This super soft stuff that everybody seems to love is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. It makes my teeth hurt and makes my hands feel dirty and dusty for like five minutes afterward. I expected to not be able to touch the chest heart and was prepared to avoid it like the tummies on the new Care Bears.

While I didn’t expect the wooly fur, it’s not horrible Sherpa and not only can I touch it, but I kinda like it.

The problem is the plaid parts. I expected them to be like a flannel or like quilt fabric, something people would use to patch up something torn. Instead, it’s this soft crap I can’t touch.

Does anybody know of a way to roughen this kind of fabric up so I can cuddle my buddy? All of my Google searches come up with results for keeping things soft or making them soft after they get rough and none of the results give instructions on how to do the opposite.

I’m desperate. Halp!

I (45f) had surgery yesterday. It turns out it wasn’t a pilonidal cyst but something “cyst-like” that the surgeon couldn’t identify and has sent off to be analyzed.

Anyway, he sent me home with a packed open wound, which is apparently a common way to send us home.

My instructions are to sit in the bath today and let the dressing soften and remove it and replace it with gauze 4x4s and I have questions. Do I wait for it to let go on its own, or do I pull it off? Is the packing included in “dressing” or is it just the outer covering? If the packing is supposed to be removed, do I put the 4x4s in where that is, or just stuff it between my butt cheeks?

I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t going through six pairs of underwear and having to put puppy pads on the bed. There was so much blood, I had my husband call the doctor, and he said it was fine. I’m terrified of making the bleeding start again by pulling off the wrong thing or pulling off the right thing the wrong way.

EDIT to add: I had two, one on the left and one on the right. The one on the right was about the size of a grape and the one on the left was about the size of an egg and it currently feels like a baseball is in there now. If that gives an idea of wound size and if that matters. Also, the surgeon did say he put a few sutures in the ends of the incisions nearest the anus.

EDITed more for spelling